Lock and anchor for wolf snares



Jan. 19, 1932. .1. J. BJORNSETH LOCK AND ANCHOR FOR WOLF SNAKES Filed 'Aug. 1'7, 1929 Patented Jan. 19, 1932 ETED STATES PATENT LOCK AND ANCHOR FOR WOLF SHARES Application filed August 17, 1929. Serial No. 388,630.

This invention relates to improvements in snares and has for its object to provide an improved anchoring device for the, snare cable, particularly wolf snares.

Another object of the invention is to provide in a snare an improved noose locking device. 1

With the above and such other objects in view as may hereinafter more fully appear,

I have invented the device shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a snare the cable being partly broken away;

Figure 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of a noose lock; and

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the cable anchored to a sapling.

Figure 4: is a plan view of the lock member; and

Figure 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the clip device employed at the anchor end of the device.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the following specification and in the several views in the drawings in which 1 indicates a snare comprising a cable 2, having a noose 3, formed at one end thereof, the terminal 1 of the cable being threaded through the longitudinal slot 5, in the under side 6 of a lock member 7, and through the opening 8 on the upper side 9 of said member and being held locked therein by means of the inclined tongue 11 of said lock. The main body portion 12 of the cable is also threaded through the longitudinal slot and then through the reduced opening 13 under the struck out angular tongue 14 of the upper side 9 of the lock member whereby the lock will freely slide upon the body of the cable in the direction of the noose end 3 but will be locked by the tongue 11 to prevent the reverse movement of said lock member. Thus, when the snare is drawn tightly around the neck of the wolf or other animal being trapped, t will be impossible for the animal to loosen the noose and escape capture. The other end 15 of the cable 2, is provided with a loop 16, threaded through the eye- 17 in the pivoted anchor bar 18 said eye 17 being formed by 3c t isting the wire of which the member 18 is formed upon itself at its central portion, the said eye being sufficiently large to permit free movement of the member 18 in order that it may be shifted to aline with the cable in order that the said member 18 together with the loop 16 may be threaded through the enlarged eye 19 of the slide ring 20 which is slidably mounted on the cable 2, by means of a reduced eye 21, which is formed by looping both ends 22 and 23 of the wire 2% from which the member 20 is formed and bending said loop ends into alining position with one another, thus when the portion 15 is brought around a sapling or limb or other object the member 20 will swing into position whereby the bar 18 may be threaded through the bar 19 after which the bar 18 may be brought to transverse position across the body of the member 20 thus anchoring the cable to said sapling or limb or the like. The terminal 25 of the returned end 26 of the cable 2 is secured by means of a binding loop 27, which maybe formed of brass or other soft metal or the like.

Having described my invention that which I claim to be new and desire to procure by Letters Patent is:

1. snare comprising a flexible steel cable having means on one end for anchoring the same, a noose on the other end thereof, a lock for said noose, so formed as to permit the closing of the noose, and prevent accidental opening thereof, said lock comprising a strap bent upon itself and having an inclined tongue struck out from one surface thereof to engage the cable threaded through said struck out portion.

2. A snare comprising a flexible steel cable having means on one end for anchoring the same, a noose on the other end thereof, a lock for'said noose, so formed as to permit the closing of the noose, and prevent accidental opening thereof, said lock comprising a strap bent upon itself and having an inclined tongue struck out from one surface thereof to engage the cable threaded through said struck out portion, when in transverse position relative to said cable.

3. The combination claimed in claim 2, said lock member having a longitudinal slot in its other end alining with the opening formed by said struck out portion, and another struck out ortion for engaging the terminal of the ca 1e forming said noose.

4. A snare comprising a flexible steel cable having means on one end for anchoring the same and a noose on the other end thereof, said anchoring means comprising a slide rill on said'cable and a pivoted bar to be-threa through said ring.

10 5. A snare comprising a flexible steel cable having means on one-end' for anchoring the same and a noose on the other end thereof, said anchoring means comprising a slide ring on said cable and a pivotedbar to be threaded nthrough said ring, and moved transversely thereof.

6. A snare comprising a flexible cable, a noose formedon one end thereof, a lock for the terminul'of said noose comprising a strap bent upon itself and having a tongue to en gage the cable-and prevent movement thereof in one direction.

In testimony whereof I, aflix my signature.

JACOB J .t BJORNSETIL 

